Describe an idea that interested you in each text. Explain why these idea interested you
             Both "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen are poems about World War I. Both contain interesting ideas. In Dulce et Owen tell us war is hell and should never be glorified and in Anthem Owen is full of pity and compassion for the soldiers who "die as cattle" and for those left behind to grieve. I found these two ideas interesting because they show two very different attitude to war and death.
             The idea that most interested me in Dulce et was Owen's graphic description of the horrible reality of war and his bitter hatred for those at home who upheld its continuance. Owen takes us to the battle field as we witness an exhausted company of soldiers retiring from the Front "Bent double like old beggars under sacks", "coughing like hags" and "drunk with fatigue" they seem deformed rendered half dead by the experience of war. When the company are hit by a gas shell we see the terrible effects of this weapon on one unfortunate soldier "flound'ring like a man in fire of lime/white eyes writhing in his face like a devil's sick of sin." Owen then turns his anger to those arm chair patriots who sit at home glorifying the war. "If you could hear/the blood come gargling from his froth corrupted lungs/you would not tell with such high zest/ the old lie: Dolce et Decorum est"
             I found Owen's ideas in "Dolce et" interesting because they are still very relevant today. Holly Wood films often glorify and sanitise war, recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have received huge T.V coverage but again it has been heavily censored. People have forgotten how horrible and bloody war can be. Owen was himself a soldier his description of the terrible conditions faced by soldiers at the Front, "We cursed through sludge/blood-shod," are real and vivid as is his anger and hatred for those who tell others(especially children) how honourable it is
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